I'm not Much of a Dancer by imacrazychick, literature
Literature
I'm not Much of a Dancer
We are born
A gasping breath, fluttering lashes and shrieking cries
Raw, uncut, open
A wound of life
And so giddily we stumble
Fumble, fall, and walk
Arms open, eyes open, doors open
To the arms of our fathers
Pulling us close to dance
We’ve become drunk by the glistening lights
The colors of the bustling dress flood our sight
The air is crisp and warm with the heat of life
Bodies crowd the dance floor
We’ve become sealed
Trapped, enclosed, controlled
And still the bodies dance
Flicker, swirl, burn
Like a hearth’s never ending fire
We twirl, we glide, we sway
Then crumble
So suddenly
No subtly
Death’s one true dagge
It’s that dull ringing
No matter where I go
It follows me
I seemed to be the only one to hear it
The constant and stinging ring
It’s numb to their ears
Nothing can overpower it
Though I do forget it sometimes
It always lingers here
It infiltrates everything I love
Showing no concern or mercy
Nothing is sacred
But still I take it over the loneliness
It gives me something to cling to
To know I’m not completely alone
I’d rather have the everyday torture
Than to know just how silent the world is
And watch the freezing fire burn
It’s that dull ringing
The inescapable ringing
The ringing of the silence